As you all know, David will be celebrating his 21st birthday on Dec 28.

A special birthday for a very special once-in-a-lifetime guy who has profoundly touched our hearts and given us an immeasurable amount of joy with his stupendously enrapturing singing;

and raced our pulses with his smouldering good looks and show-stopping smiles;

a guy with a vision of the world peculiar to himself in the face of the grim and grey music world in which we now live;

an uplifting inspiration in a cynical world with his doggedly perseverance even in the face of self-doubt.

All that by the age of 21.

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Let us be thankful and rejoice in celebrating him and the presence of such a being living in our midst.

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Now that he will be leaving us soon for 2 years to take on a full-time religious mission, there is all the more reason to celebrate him: for his strength of character and his steadfastness in his beliefs.

Let us keep the David-spirit alive by our forever love.

Let us pray that he will be kept safe and warm in God’s hands.

Let us hope that he will come back to us after he has done God’s work.

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I have written him a birthday message on behalf of AAM, in a birthday card which I handed to Akang to be hand-delivered to Janey of FOD to be placed into David’s hands at the Santa Rosa VIP on Dec 14. Thank you to these lovely ladies for making it possible.

Trace

Below are pics of the 10 1/2″ by 10 1/2″ card and our birthday poem to David:

Have a wonderful time everyone! I’m glad at least some of you can gather together to celebrate David’s birthday.

I’ve been pretty bummed out by David’s mission announcement, but I’m slowly coming to terms with it along with the rest of you. We don’t have to agree with the LDS faith in order to be a fan of David and to support his decisions. Hopefully he will return from his mission happier, stronger, and more music-filled than ever!

Katheryn – love your positive note! As we are living in a world where so many things can wear us down, and I do not want to dwell too deep on the negative. We will continue to cling on that hope and keep our admiration for David until he completes his mission. By the way, I always enjoy reading your comments:-)))).

Katheryn
Thank you – we did have a great time at the get-together- but tinged with sadness. We also had a lively discussion concerning the Mission thing, the LDS church doctrines, David’s decision, the SLC concert right from the horse’s mouth from Sheba, exchanged feelings of grief, love and hope…. all the Why’s, When’s, How’s…… and most important of all, the almost unspoken decision that everyone is here to stay and WAIT.

“We don’t have to agree with the LDS faith in order to be a fan of David and to support his decisions.”
Chin up Katheryn, we will all be here to hold out together with you and all the other Archies. 🙂